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U.S. Post Office

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1917, Louis A. Simon for James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 115 S. Swenson St.

Occupying the town square, the post office is a Georgian-styled building, one story in height on a raised basement. The building’s buff brick body is accented by a white Tuscan portico, a tall white cornice capped by an attic story with balustrades, and grand windows on the north and south facades shaped in a variation of a Palladian motif. The clerestory of the lobby is masked from street view by tall balustrades.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "U.S. Post Office", [Stamford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SB1.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 298-298.

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